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  Steve Hackett: A Guitarist's Genesis and Beyond

  August 13 at 4 a.m.

  A Genesis in My Bed: The Autobiography By Steve Hackett 208 pp. $29.99 Wymer Publishing While his name may not be as familiar to casual classic rock fans has his former bandmates in Genesis, guitarist Steve Hackett has had a surprisingly long and varied (and still evolving) musical career with...

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  America: 50 Years of Golden Music and Nameless Horses

  August 10 at 4 a.m.

  If you’re a fan of the band America – the trio behind such classic rock warhorses as, well, “A Horse with No Name” along with “Sister Golden Hair,” “Ventura Highway,” “Tin Man,” “Lonely People,” “Sandman,” “I Need You,” and “You Can Do Magic,” you have one organization to thank: The...

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  New Book Digs Deep on the Bitter End of the Beatles

  August 5 at 4:30 a.m.

  And In the End: The Last Days of the Beatles By Ken McNab 320 pp. $28.99 Thomas Dunne Books By the summer of 1969, the finely-tuned motorcar that was the Beatles was nearing “E” on its collective gas tank. There was a grimness that had fallen over their company (Apple),...

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  Liberty DeVitto: Billy Joel's Big Beat Man Remembers

  July 31 at 4 a.m.

  For nearly 30 years, he provided the big backbeat behind Billy Joel as a core member of his band for hundreds of concerts around the world and on a string of hugely successful records. The two also formed a deep personal relationship, enjoying good times and the vast fruits of...

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  Houston Afrofuturism Book Club Provides Space to Discuss Work of Black Creatives

  July 29 at 4 a.m.

  Earlier this year, Jaison Oliver encountered one of Facebook’s, often annoying, memory posts about the first meeting of his Houston Afrofuturism Book Club. The old image was from 2016, dating the club back further than even he would have guessed..,

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  New Book Shows The "Quiet Beatle" Was Anything But Silent

  July 16 at 4 a.m.

  George Harrison On George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters Edited by Ashley Kahn 573 pp. $30 Chicago Review Press The “Quiet” Beatle? Ha! While that particular sobriquet dogged George Harrison for nearly 40 years, here’s tangible proof that moniker was more in need a for quick nickname or (lazy journalism!). The...